pudic
adj/ˈpjuːdɪk/
Etymology From French pudique, from Latin pudīcus, from pudet (“it shames”).
1
Easily ashamed, having a strong sense of shame; modest, chaste.
- Is it not extraordinary, by the way, that all over Europe, even in the pudic nurseries of your own country, this should be regarded as a children's book?1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 383:
- a big mulberry-colored cake of soap slithered out of her hand, and her black-socked foot hooked the door shut with a bang which was more the echo of the soap's crashing against the marble board than a sign of pudic displeasure.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 46: